Tag Archives: U.S. District Court – Eastern District

In defendant’s prosecution arising from his thwarted efforts to adopt two juvenile males in two different North Carolina lo­calities and stalking of those young boys, a Norfolk U.S. District Court denies defen­dant’s motions to sever charges in his crim­inal prosecution ...

A Norfolk U.S. District Court takes un­der advisement plaintiff lender’s motion for default judgment against defendants including guarantors of a loan to a com­mercial cleaning business, in light of out­standing factual questions such as wheth­er a written demand was made ...

In plaintiff investors’ suit alleging fraud and seeking the return of over $4 million they invested in defendant’s “global invest­ment fund,” the Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses defendants’ counterclaim for breach of contract as “so vague that it falls far ...

A plaintiff who alleges defendant, a lieu­tenant in the Caroline County sheriff’s of­fice, obtained search warrants for plaintiff that a state court said showed a reckless disregard as to the falsity of the support­ing statements, and stopped defendant’s car and ...

A defendant sentenced to 15 days in cus­tody for possession of marijuana in viola­tion of his supervised release conditions, but who was erroneously released after five days, is not entitled to time-served credit for the 10 days he was at ...

An Alexandria U.S. District Court denies defendant’s motion to suppress evidence from defendant’s cell phone, seized as de­fendant, a Turkish citizen who came to the U.S. on a B2 visitor visa and who reported­ly had firearms parts in his luggage, ...

A county firefighter who alleged he could not return to full duty after a work-related back injury within the 12-month period prescribed by the coun­ty has failed to state claims under Title VII or the ADA based on the county’s ...

Applying Pennsylvania law, an Alex­andria U.S. District Court says a 2007 fireworks accident that injured a woman and her two sons was a single “occur­rence,” not 19 occurrences under a CGL policy, as the injured persons assert, and the carrier ...

A Norfolk U.S. District Court grants enforcement of three arbitration awards from the International Commercial Ar­bitration Court at the Chamber of Com­merce and Industry of the Russian Fed­eration in a dispute that arose during construction of two natural gas power ...

An Amazon warehouse worker who said he punched out a coworker because of his sexual orientation cannot be prose­cuted under the Matthew Shepard-James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, says a Richmond U.S. District Court; as applied to this defendant, ...